kootchman
BBC a little too biased for ya too?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-20151870
Care given to a terminally ill woman at a Derby hospital has been compared to “torture” by her family.
Pritnam Kaur Ghuman died last week after a stroke but her son said it was cruel to deny her food and water.
In Nottinghamshire, the family of Philip Charlesworth claim he was put on the same end of life programme without their knowledge.
Both the Royal Derby and King’s Mill Hospitals said the Liverpool Care Pathway is designed to limit distress.
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Paul Ghuman, who lives in Derby, said he was shocked at the care given to his mother: “To me it is a form of torture. It is a lingering death and you are increasing the torture by denying them the food and drink and drips and medication.
“We don’t leave animals which are sick just to die without medication, we don’t just leave them to die of their own causes, so why do that to humans?
BBC.. right wing as they come eh? Clear the beds… that’s the financial incentive.
You don’t have far to look amigo… a google search of good old Washington state and the use of methadone as “pain management for the poor” is a cautionary tale. You can bet your ass I didn’t get methadone … not on private health insurance!!! Only the government would do that… not outside a confined hospital stay with all the respiration and heart monitors … never a home managed standard of care. Enjoy the MULTIPLE reads… I think KIRO or KOMO got a Pulitzer nomination for it. Hundreds died. Oooops … they got caught… practice ceased. Note only the poor got “universal” access to methadone.
While NEITHER of us “know” the full effects of the ACA…. there is evidence … lots of it.. of other government run healthcare systems… rationing is always a major component.